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Jisoo Hwang is an Associate Professor of Economics at Seoul National University. Her research fields are labor and family economics, with a focus on low fertility, gender gaps in labor markets, and how policies and life events shape individuals’ careers, family formation, and health. 

In 2026, she was appointed by the French Presidency to the G7 Gender Equality Advisory Council (GEAC), a high-level expert group advising the G7 on gender equality policy. She also currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Asian and Australasian Society of Labour Economics (AASLE). She has been invited as a plenary speaker at the 2025 Econometric Society World Congress and received the Korean Economy Research Award in 2020 for her work on the transition of son preference. She is a Research Fellow at the Rockwool Foundation Berlin and the co-PI of the Health-Family-Labor Economics Research Team. 

Hwang received her Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and her B.A. in Economics from Seoul National University.